Museum of antiquity; a description of ancient life: the employments, amusements, customs and habits, the cities, palaces, monuments and tombs, the literature and fine arts of 3,000 years ago (1883)
Yaggy, Levi W, Haines, T. L. (Thomas Louis), b. 1844 · Alexandria, Va., W.P. Grant & co. · leaf 218
y of later times, together with the de-generacy of the women themselves, had made the establishmentof workshops and places of manufacture for this purpose neces- OCCUPATION OF WOMEN. 205 sary. Antique art has frequently treated these domestic occu-pations. The Attic divinities, Athene Ergane and… … SOCIAL ENJOYMENT OF WOMEN {From aji ancient painting.) and, at the same time, protecting female endeavors; in whichtwo-fold quality they have the emblem of domestic activity, thedistaff, as their attribute. Only a few representations of spinninggoddesses now remain; but many are the pictures of…
Civilization · Classical antiquities
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